Commemorated today
- Martyrs Probus, Tarachus and AndronicusMartyr
What is known
A martyr died rather than deny Christ. The word is Greek for witness, and the Church uses it in that sense: the death is testimony, not merely a fate. Most of these deaths fall in the Roman persecutions before 313, though the title is not restricted to them.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
- St Symeon the New Theologian (1022)d. 1022 life on this site
The life we have written
Venerable Symeon the New Theologian
Symeon insisted that Christian life is more than correct language about a distant God: through repentance, the sacraments, and grace, the believer is called to know the living presence of the Holy Spirit.
- Era
- 949–1022
- Region
- Asia Minor and Constantinople
- Category
- Monk, abbot, mystic, poet, and theologian
- Feast
- March 12
- Wilfrid of York
What is known
The title places them at York. Kept in the Greek tradition.
Beyond this, no life of them survives that could be checked — which is true of most of the saints kept on any given day. The commemoration is the record.
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on October 12 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on October 25 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.